Whatever happened to this? On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Philip Lowman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Luigi suggested a kind of CMake ports system in a recent thread here on the > CMake mailing list. This would presumably be a system whereby popular 3rd > party dependencies which have not yet CMakeified their source trees could be > CM'd and baselined in one place and ultimately downloaded for easy > incorporation into CMake projects (especially with a goal towards MSVC/MinGW > portability). VTK seems to be doing this internally for several of it's > dependencies and the OSG project seems interested in doing the same for > similar reasons but would prefer not to duplicate a bunch of work. Since > many of the dependencies overlap, is there general interest in this kind of > a thing from the VTK perspective or from others? > > The goal would be to create an open-source project (hosted probably at a > neutral site like SF.net or Google Code) where the ports could be stored, > baselined, etc. and then released so that anyone could download whichever > are needed and incorporate them into their own projects? Export/Install > support could also be built into the projects so that they could be prebuilt > and installed by others and used that way as well. > > A tertiary goal would be convincing the 3rd party dependencies to switch to > CMake for their native build systems. > > Does this sound interesting? > > -- > Philip Lowman > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake >
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